Hammer Attack Story Exam Question

Explore how audiences can respond to and interpret the ideological perspectives of [media products].

The audience of these newspapers are generally very varied throughout the different types of newspaper. Typically, one can assume that the people who read the broadsheet newspaper are more level headed in the comments section, compared to the typical consumer of a tabloid broadsheet, considering as they are generally seen as sensationalist and more likely to be outraged and believe everything that they read. 

Due to the nature of this platform, it attracts many different kinds of people. The page itself has 40,020,617 likes and the article alone has 2700 likes, so it can be inferred that many people have commented on this. In the comments section for this article, there are people such as Nikki, who cares for the child as she can feel more personable to this story, considering she has a child of the same age. There are people such as Ryan, who would like to use this dark day to help others and prevent a similar situation from happening in the future, Ryan is obviously outraged, but he sets aside his personal opinions on the matter in order to bring light to the larger problem and how people can help with the problem. Notably, people can be quick to bring their derogatory and flaming opinions into the comments section, as seen with Lalit Kamble, commenting three minutes after the article was posted, and leading to a long comment chain of ethnicity